Both could get reappointment as early as Monday

[angrychair]

A lady who was speaking on MSNBC, I did not catch her name, stated it's the intention of the boards responsible for the interim appointments in each of their respective districts, will vote to send them back to the House as early as next week if they are willing to accept the reappointment

[cbabe]

1. Yes! Legal lynching be damned.

[Beachnutt]

2. They Both need to be on the World Stage

They are two Awesome smart men.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. good

[barbtries]

4. wow, that's wild.

this is not going to be a net win for the fucking republican racist fascist gun humpers then.

the House there is so lopsided already. so this was all just a show, or a way to try and convince people to voluntarily surrender their First Amendment rights?

i'm glad they will be back representing their constituencies, but puzzled about what begins now to look like a show. ?

[Scrivener7]

5. You are so right. This is going to backfire spectacularly.

[angrychair]

6. They have to be willing

To accept the reappointment and they will still have to be willing to run for reelection once a date is set.

Still an overtly racist House speaker and white racist Republican supermajority to fight.

Hopefully that changes in the next election.

[barbtries]

7. sure would be great if it did.

but I assume the republicans have a vise-like hold on that the way they do in NC.

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. Probably true

If it weren't for gerrymandering they wouldn't be holding onto their majority positions. When you look at some of statewide elections in red states, they don't match the local elections. This is how states continue to be ruled by their minority.

[lees1975]

20. Tennessee is particularly gerrymandered.

The two largest counties, Shelby and Davidson, have a third of the population between them, but less than half of the representation that their neighboring suburban counties have in either the state senate or house. The district lines are ridiculous, demonstrating literally the "gerrymander". I've read estimates that the redrawn lines since 2000 have cost Democrats 8 seats in the state house from each county, and another 5 or 6 across the state in other places.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Please post a link if you find one

We need to understand clearly the interim appointment process.

[ificandream]

16. Hope this helps.

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/06/shelby-county-could-reappoint-pearson-after-expulsion-from-tn-house/70090428007/

Shelby County could reappoint Justin Pearson after expulsion from TN House
Katherine Burgess
Memphis Commercial Appeal

The Shelby County Commission could consider reappointing Justin Pearson to his seat in the Tennessee statehouse, Chairman Mickell Lowery said Thursday.

Pearson was expelled Thursday along with fellow Democrat Justin Jones after they interrupted a floor session and used a bullhorn to lead chants for gun control. Democrat Gloria Johnson survived Thursday's expulsion vote in the House.

Vacancies can be filled on an interim basis by the county legislative body until a legislator is elected in a special election.

In Shelby County, the commission has a nine-member Democratic supermajority.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Thanks so much!

What’s the situation in Jones’ district?

[dsc]

9. Had they expelled the Knox County rep

she likely would have been replaced by an appointee of a GOP controlled board which makes the fact they didn't expel her even more racist.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I wouldn't read too much into her not being expelled.

They only missed expelling her by one vote. It's not good optics for them though.

[ALBliberal]

12. Agree. The memes write themselves.

[Tanuki]

14. The GOP tried to get Gloria Johnson to resign ahead of the vote

by sending someone from HR around a couple of days ago to tell her she'd lose her health care if she was expelled but could keep it if she resigned of her own accord. She told them 'no way, no how'.

[Ms. Toad]

13. How about a little context?

I haven't had a minute to check news, or anything else, for the past 24 hours, and this is the first post I stumbled on. No clue what you're talking about.

[herding cats]

15. Quick catch-up below.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tennessee-expulsion-vote-state-house-oust-democratic-lawmakers/story?id=98402653

Two Democratic lawmakers have been ousted from the Republican-controlled Tennessee state House of Representatives and one was allowed to stay in what marks the first partisan expulsion in the state's modern history.

The three lawmakers -- State Reps. Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, who were expelled, and Rep. Gloria Johnson -- faced separate expulsion hearings Thursday for allegedly violating the chamber's rules of decorum by participating in a gun control protest at the state Capitol last week.

At one point during the protest, the trio stood at the well of the House chambers, leading chants with a megaphone. The demonstration came in the wake of the deadly Covenant School shooting in Nashville on March 27, where a former student fatally shot three children and three adults, police have said.

Days later, Tennessee Republican Reps. Bud Hulsey, Gino Bulso and Andrew Farmer sponsored the expulsion resolutions, arguing the three Democratic lawmakers "did knowingly and intentionally bring disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives through their individual and collective actions."

[Ms. Toad]

19. Thank you!

Like I said - I literally haven't had a minute in the last 24 hours to check in on news (Septic system went bust, new one installed today, major art project due today, and a computer science test I finished just before I opened DU and landed in this thread).

So I had no idea what this was about. No context threads make me cranky on an ordinary day, and today wasn't ordinary.

[herding cats]

21. Eww, that's definitely not a good day. I'm sorry for you.

No worries beyond that. We all have busy lives on many tiers.

I truly cannot count the number of times I've been stumped by a post here myself. Today I knew, which is why I shared. Most of our lives are hectic and full. I completely understand.

[Ms. Toad]

22. That wasn't even counting

the two friends I had die within the last 48 hours . . . it's been a couple of rough days.

[herding cats]

23. I'm deeply sorry for your losses!

My heart feels for you.

That was extremely rough to navigate.

[Ms. Toad]

24. Thank you.

The loss of my friends is just starting to sink in, now that I'm up for air.

[herding cats]

25. Perfectly understandable. Give yourself time.

Just reach out and lean on those you are close to as you can. You're probably going to feel emotions which are all over the place. We all would at a moment like this.

Remember, we're all just humans and do our best at times like this. That's all we can do.

Remember to breathe.

[Tanuki]

17. The 2 young Democratic state reps from TN who were expelled today.

The law says their local councils are to appoint a replacement until a special election, but there's nothing to prevent them from being re-appointed and re-elected.

[UTUSN]

26. K&R

[brooklynite]

27. You might want to specify "who" and "where" you're talking about in the title.

And according to BALLOTPEDIA, there's no "interim appointment" in Tennessee. The seat remains vacant until the next general election.

https://ballotpedia.org/Tennessee_State_Senate